page_title: Takeshi Iwaya
section_title: Profile and career
hierarchical_section_title: Takeshi Iwaya / Profile and career
caption_attribution_description: Eric Hargan, Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, talked with Takeshi Iwaya, Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chiyoda Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis, on July 11, 2007.
context_page_description: Takeshi Iwaya is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. He served as the Minister of Defense from 2 October 2018 to 11 September 2019.
context_section_description: A native of Beppu, Ōita and the son of Kei Iwaya, a member of the assembly of Ōita Prefecture, Takeshi Iwaya graduated the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University.
  He was elected to the assembly of Ōita Prefecture in 1987 (serving for one term), and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as an independent. After losing his seat in 1993, he ran unsuccessfully for the house in 1996 but was re-elected in 2000.
  His profile on the LDP website:
  Member, Oita Prefectural Assembly
  Parliamentary Secretary for Defense (Mori Cabinet)
  Deputy Secretary-General of LDP
  Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Abe Cabinet)
  Director, National Defense Division of LDP
caption: Takeshi Iwaya meeting with Eric Hagan
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